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SidarthSiCKOSonyStuds TerkelTVTeach 'em earlyThanksgivingThe DoorsThe Great DepressionThe WireThich Nhat HanhThomas FriedmanTom DiCilloTom LehrerVietnameseWanda SykesWarrantless spyingWavy GravyWhen You're StrangeWikiLeaksadventurearchivesarcticbible studiesbriberychocolatecorkydavid lettermandog storiesdrug warellsbergespionagefinancial news crapfirefightersfree loadershabeas corpusiglooinaugurationjack murthajailkeith olbermannkidnappingkorealegolesbian gangsmarijuanamilitary recruitingmsmumbainikki haleyoctavia butleroil leakoil spillspedophiliaphotographypicklespoetryradioraprehabracadabrareviewssex abuse and Catholic Churchsex workerssociopathswine fluthe richthe workstheftthunderstormstruth vs. liesurban farmingvitaminswomen and Catholic Churchwomen and povertyThePoliticalCatA Blog devoted to progressive politics, environmental issues, LGBT issues, social justice, workers' rights, womens' rights, and, most importantly, Cats.http://kalimao.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)Blogger2307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-5417387995630562967Fri, 30 May 2014 01:38:00 +00002014-05-29T20:12:35.201-07:00animalscatscuteShe's BEYOOTIFUL And She Knows ItSometimes you just have to get yourself a little something special, to make life worth living. You know, like when you get all depressed and shit. Or, if you're really lucky, you have a wonderful partner who delivers the proverbial kick in the pants with a beautiful new 85-mm lens for the beautiful new Nikon D7000 he bought you. <cr><p>At any rate, the Nikon was 2013's birthday present, and the lens was 2013's anniversary present, and it's a damn good ROI on 14 happy years together, so there. <cr><p>And wut better way to celebrate one's favourite toy than by featuring one's favourite beasts through its ever-alert eye? Here's Madu: <cr><p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_DAtrwC13ow/U4fWisa4j3I/AAAAAAAAG-E/qIiQpfBoNXo/s1600/DSC_0373.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_DAtrwC13ow/U4fWisa4j3I/AAAAAAAAG-E/qIiQpfBoNXo/s320/DSC_0373.JPG" /> Copyright ThePoliticalCat all rights reserved </a></div><cr><p>And Gojira. <cr><p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R73WJSlpaX0/U4fXeX5qrjI/AAAAAAAAG-M/mARCQwRdkNM/s1600/DSC_0444.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R73WJSlpaX0/U4fXeX5qrjI/AAAAAAAAG-M/mARCQwRdkNM/s320/DSC_0444.JPG" /> Copyright ThePoliticalCat all rights reserved </a></div><cr><p> Who would ever believe they were brother and sister? Or, as I'm sure they put it, Bother & Satanspawn. Guess which is which. <cr><p>Adorable. <cr><p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmDcY9470xU/U4fYpor5DxI/AAAAAAAAG-U/3Y9WZCWxLzI/s1600/DSC_0512.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmDcY9470xU/U4fYpor5DxI/AAAAAAAAG-U/3Y9WZCWxLzI/s320/DSC_0512.JPG" /> Copyright ThePoliticalCat all rights reserved </a></div> <cr><p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifgov7RDQ5w/U4fZlE4G4NI/AAAAAAAAG-k/woHJnxdee2k/s1600/DSC_0527.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifgov7RDQ5w/U4fZlE4G4NI/AAAAAAAAG-k/woHJnxdee2k/s320/DSC_0527.JPG" /> Copyright ThePoliticalCat all rights reserved </a></div> <cr><p> We're totally pussy-whipped in this house. And not ashamed to admit it, either. <cr><p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T9kYqwQJPtU/U4fezJYjriI/AAAAAAAAG-0/ZKe0BIcxEFQ/s1600/DSC_0529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T9kYqwQJPtU/U4fezJYjriI/AAAAAAAAG-0/ZKe0BIcxEFQ/s320/DSC_0529.JPG" /> Copyright ThePoliticalCat all rights reserved </a></div> <cr><p> It's true that Boy doesn't get equal camera time. He's usually asleep, and when he's not, loud noises, sudden movement, or light will scare him into running out of the house in a snit. Whereas Miss Thang is convinced she is the most beautiful creature in the world and all the pandemonium is just her fans showing their appreciation. http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2014/05/sometimes-you-just-have-to-get-yourself.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-9099062829996777933Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:00:00 +00002014-02-08T17:54:07.185-08:00animalscatsCaturdaycelebrateCaturday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G1d3YgHx9EQ/UvaekOeC6SI/AAAAAAAAG7U/473aIS7RirE/s1600/wtfffff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G1d3YgHx9EQ/UvaekOeC6SI/AAAAAAAAG7U/473aIS7RirE/s320/wtfffff.jpg" /></a></div><p><br><br>It's raining!<p> Ordinarily, we don't care for this pissy little thing that passes for rain in these dry damned parts. We like REAL rain. Like thunderstorms, with pelting water from the sky that hits your head hard enough to hurt, and lightning flashing in sheets and bolts, sizzling near one's feet as one runs screaming through the wet dark streets on a warm tropical night to the sound of rolling thunder. THAT'S rain. <br><p>Not this endless minge of gray fog and gray damp drizzly skies and gray-brown hills all sere from the long, dry summer, and gray wet roads and gray wet buildings looming grayly out of the gray swathe of city streets and byways. <br><p>But it's been dry. How dry? Dry enough that people are vaguely starting to resemble some sort of lizardoid alien. Cracked lips and wrinkly dry shiny skins. Talking about reducing showers and graywater systems and single-rinse laundry cycles kinda dry. And the trees were dying from the dry, leaves drooping and dull, twigs wrinkled at their tender ends instead of plump babyish fists of leaves. It was so fucking dry I thought I'd lost my WISTERIA, for Christ's sake, and that thing has survived nearly 30 years of my lazy-assed failure to feed, water, or otherwise care for in any way; yearly hot Santa Ana winds; a fire that took down 2,000 houses in the vicinity; earthquakes; temporary use as a gravesite for murdered squirrels (looking at YOU, Ramon Rivera of the Rainbow Bridge) and god only knows what-all else kinda disasters and shenanigans. <br><p>So this rain's a welcome addition, right now. A surprise, but welcome nonetheless.<br><p>We're supposed to get all kinds stuff fixed around the old homestead, stuff I haven't been able to take care of for a decade because I was so badly disabled. Yes, yes, we're using the D-word now, admitting to a whole fuckin' lotta suffering and shit. The house is almost literally falling down around our ears. The fabled thousand-step stairs need replacing with some solid construction-type construction. The retaining walls are collapsing. The deck supports need shoring up, and replacement in parts. Bleh. Lotsa work. <br><p>And you can't work in this rain.<br><p>Oh, fuck it, it's Caturday. Have a wonderful one, y'awl. <p><p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1s1eNHwj5Iw/UvaoeZrhCjI/AAAAAAAAG7k/dmHtTTtzRd8/s1600/sweetcaturday128546505902947500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1s1eNHwj5Iw/UvaoeZrhCjI/AAAAAAAAG7k/dmHtTTtzRd8/s320/sweetcaturday128546505902947500.jpg" /></a></div>http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2014/02/caturday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-823333307851225264Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:05:00 +00002013-12-01T14:05:45.678-08:00animal rescueanimal storiesanimalsbandicootcatsgustavGoodbye, dear Gustav <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zuyv6HIo_w4/UpumsqJaOkI/AAAAAAAAG4c/B94mU-FTB0c/s1600/DSCN0364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zuyv6HIo_w4/UpumsqJaOkI/AAAAAAAAG4c/B94mU-FTB0c/s320/DSCN0364.JPG" /></a></div><p>Gustav is gone. <p>After 13 years of living with us, he has taken his earsplitting yowls and his chrysanthemum bud of a tail to the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, there to await us with a cynical expression and a complaint, no doubt. <p>He was not the easiest of cats, but the poor little guy had a very hard life before we got him. Abuse, neglect, abandonment, kicks, and beatings were his lot from birth, pretty much. He was rescued, with his mother and siblings, from a drain in which he was born. Some cruel person had dumped the pregnant mama cat in there and poured liquid on her. Ants were biting her and the babies. You could say his hard life began at birth. <p>He survived a few years of being passed around -- nobody wanted him, because he was not a 'pretty' animal. He was lean and rangy and the suspicious look got worse, I imagine, after a few different people rejected him with kicks and blows. When he came to us, we had a houseful of cats. We took him in because his alternative was death. We will never regret saving his life. He was not an affectionate cat, and it took him years to learn how to play with toys, or interact with us. The first time he ever played with a toy, after he'd lived with us for two years, he sneaked downstairs in the wee hours of the morning. We were awakened by odd, scrabbling noises in the living room. When we turned on the light, there was Gustav, lying on his back, batting at a ball -- looking embarrassed as hell. <p>He never liked people. He was not the kind of cat to approach people looking for petting. He shrank away from them and yowled loudly, convinced they meant him no good. He came to us with his mother, Greta, to whom he was greatly attached. He would attack any cat who came near her. He never attacked people, to his credit. But he did not like sharing Greta with anyone. Greta was a sweet, affectionate kitty, and it was difficult to interact with her, with Gustav getting anxious and yowly when she would approach us for pets or treats. Unfortunately for us all, she died shortly after her arrival. She threw a blood clot. A terrible death. Gustav was never the same after, although Bandicoot, the best of all kitties in the world, took him under a mighty fraternal paw. The Coot was easily three times Gustav's size, weighing in at an impressive 20 lbs in his fattitude, whereas Gustav never got much beyond 7, maybe 8 at the most. And the Coot was very fluffy, and he would let Gustav curl up in his enormous furry coat to sleep. So Gustav was somewhat consoled by the Coot, although he got on everyone's nerves with his unending complaints, and occasionally, the Coot would bite him about the ears. Which just made him complain louder. <p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvvTsQPxiKo/Upux1QIVpFI/AAAAAAAAG4s/rc7EczlXHZ0/s1600/DSCN0376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvvTsQPxiKo/Upux1QIVpFI/AAAAAAAAG4s/rc7EczlXHZ0/s320/DSCN0376.JPG" /></a></div> <p> After the Coot passed on, Gustav started deteriorating pretty quickly, poor guy. His legs got weaker and weaker, and eventually he couldn't get up on our giant bed any more. We couldn't train him to use the kitty stairs we bought, so we made him a comfortable bed on the floor. Little by little, his world shrank to the scope of the bedroom, although he did still go outside when it was warm and sunny. Then he got a nasty infection in his eye, right around the time we learned that our beloved friend, Cris, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Life became very hard, then, with Gus on the verge of losing his eye while Cris died by inches. <p>It cost us a lot of money and he needed a veterinary opthalmologist's services, but we managed to save his eye. Shortly thereafter, Cris died. I lost a dear and very much-loved friend, someone I had loved for nearly two decades. And I thought we had saved Gustav. <p>Lately he seemed to have more and more difficulty walking. His feet were acting strange, and his gait was very unsteady. Sometimes he would trip over his own feet because one foot had turned inward or outward unexpectedly. And the crying was getting worse. It was hard to tell whether he was just screaming because he screamed a lot of the time anyway, or if he was screaming because he was in pain. We had him on pain medication for his arthritis, but his kidneys were going and his digestive system was pretty messed up and he had lost most of the sight in one eye, and he never could smell very well because he'd always had herpes. <p>So when we heard him yowling on Friday, we thought, it's probably time for his pain medication, poor guy. But then the yowling got very strange, and we ran into the bathroom and found him lying on the floor having a seizure, or something. His body was rigid and trembling, he was lying on his side, he had peed himself and was drooling and frothing at the mouth, with one foot drawn up to his chest. We dried him and wrapped him warmly in a towel and held him and tried to calm him, but it was obvious something was very wrong with the old guy, and not so clear that anything would help. But we called the vet anyway, and finally found someone. <p>She didn't know much about his history, so she suggested we try to save him. Apparently, Gustav's retinas had blown out, so he had suddenly gone blind. The treatment she recommended would have meant medicating him daily. He might not regain his vision. And it was just a matter of time before his kidneys gave out anyway. He would have to stay in the hospital for 36 hours. <p>We did the right thing by the boy. It was a hard choice, not because there was any possibility that we were wrong, but because it feels so arrogant to take a life, when we cannot give one. But for Gustav, there was no quality of life left. Blind, surrounded by two rambunctious younger cats who seem to remember how he attacked them when he was younger, not really enjoying his food, unable to see, smell, walk, or hear very well, in a house full of stairs? If I were in his place, I'd want the bliss of the needle. Can't eat, can't shit, can't walk, can't hear, can't smell, can't taste, can't see? What's left of life to enjoy? <p>And for a cat so averse to human contact to be picked up and medicated three times a day? He only let us medicate him when he was very, very sick, because he was too weak to run away. As soon as he got his strength back he started fighting me over the medication. He's never bitten me, but he has, on occasion, got a claw stuck -- deep -- in me and caused some not insignificant bleeding. I know he doesn't mean to, but that doesn't make it hurt any the less. And he's very good at refusing to do things. Plus, he never really learned to interact with people. He's always preferred the company of his own species. And these last two remaining cats of the family never liked him and never will. His life would have been hell. <p>We said goodbye to him at the doctor's after assuring ourselves that he suffered no more. I hope by the time we go, we have the same option. Goodbye dear little Gustav. You tried so hard to be a good kitty. Life was not very fair or very kind to you. We tried our best to give you everything that made you happy, dear. We miss you very much, and always will. http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2013/12/goodbye-dear-gustav.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-5896231259064076779Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:06:00 +00002013-04-21T18:06:38.026-07:00foodgardeningSunday Is A Funday<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jKbI54zadcI/UXRRKRarbWI/AAAAAAAAGv8/q6vmq8KZ81o/s1600/DSC_0282.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jKbI54zadcI/UXRRKRarbWI/AAAAAAAAGv8/q6vmq8KZ81o/s320/DSC_0282.JPG" /></a><br><p> Hey, even WE can't do politics alla time, OK? Or else we'd go stark raving bonkers and start slapping random people unconscious. "Do you watch Fox News? (slap!) Well, DO YOU? (slap!) Wut? (slap!) Wut's that you say? (slap!) You DO? (slap!) Really? (slap!) You little ... " <br><p> Enough of that fantasy. So it's a beautiful sunny day, the birds are singing their little fecking heads off, the garden is coming into bloom in a scraggly sort of way (didn't plant anything for the spring), and the wisteria is a fragrant purple cloud on the porch. Lemons are blooming, too. The echium is making the bees drowsy, and I can see the Naked Ladies preparing themselves for bloom season. Daffodils and hyacinths didn't bloom much this year. It wasn't much of a spring at all. But we did have a perfect cloud of plum blossom in the brief dry blue days (for two whole days). And the solanum jasminoides put forth starry purple flowers with golden hearts, and our veronica (a beautiful bluish-purple shade, you might know it as speedwell) spread forth, prostrate, to intertwine with the pink puffballs I got from Cris's garden so many years ago. Pineapple sage is blooming scarlet, but the hummingbirds like the sugar-water we left them. An enormous ruffled burgundy blossom on the little camellia near Faridah's grave. The pink and white camellia in the back, which burned to the ground in the big fire 20 years ago, is back, taller than me and bursting with bloom. A perfect companion to the climbing Cecile Brunner with its dainty pink and white fragrant flowers. <br><p> Tomatoes are out getting acclimated. We have two eggplant plants this year. I must put in squash, and work on the bed downstairs. A gardener's work is never done, have you noticed? Every weekend it's several hours of weeding and watering, and digging and sieving and digging in compost, picking off pests, foliar spray, calcium for the 'maties ... and we're just piddly-ass home gardeners, not even trying to feed a family on our produce. <br><p> Little worried about tomatoes this year. A chilly wind's been blowing every day, or at least every night, it's one of the cooler spring seasons and experts predict a cool summer overall. Well, tomatoes will not set fruit at anything under 55F, not even those tough Russian heirlooms. Plus, the cold seems to make their skins thicker. OK, they're loaded with anthocyanins and flavour, but still. Tomato skin is what gets stuck in your gullet and it itches and makes you cough, and our ancient pipes are delicate, goddammit, especially after 50 years of fucking smoking our lungs out. <br><p> We've got some new varieties to play with this year, better adapted to our microclimate. We did well two or three years ago, with up to 150 fruit per plant, Black Krim, Black from Tula, Black Sea Man, Japanese Black Trifele, Cherokee Purple, a couple of Swedish varieties (early, haha, they didn't set fruit till all the others did). The Brandywines didn't fruit at all, we've given up on those. <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OrBJYjJMtKM/UXSME9eih0I/AAAAAAAAGwE/Gey8RPcPyJ8/s1600/CherokeePurple.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OrBJYjJMtKM/UXSME9eih0I/AAAAAAAAGwE/Gey8RPcPyJ8/s320/CherokeePurple.jpg" /></a><br><p>Happy gardening, y'all!http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2013/04/sunday-is-funday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-5629411500860127346Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:48:00 +00002013-04-20T12:48:01.935-07:00activismCaturdaycongresscritterconservativesCubadisaster capitalismhypocriteOccupyscumbagssocial justicetaxpayersCaturday<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V1LI1yrDJIE/UXLZQccVHAI/AAAAAAAAGvU/shkPYSKHvzo/s1600/cuzitscaturday128596705977248286.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V1LI1yrDJIE/UXLZQccVHAI/AAAAAAAAGvU/shkPYSKHvzo/s320/cuzitscaturday128596705977248286.jpg" />Yeah. Dat Ting.</a><br><p>It's that time of the week again, and we at La Casa de Los Gatos send love to all the good people of <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/20/chechnya-connections-build-picture-of-tamerlan-and-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/">Boston</a>. Man, y'all had a <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/19/watch-live-alleged-suspect-arrested-in-boston-marathon-bombing/">hellacious</a> week! <br><p>Fortunately, it's over now and y'all can sleep. Rest. Take it easy. <br><p>Meanwhile, over in TexASS (sorry, y'all. You know we here try to keep the love flowing in all directions, but right now TexASS is totally on our shit list), <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/20/volunteer-firefighting-force-decimated-in-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion/">this-all happened</a>. <br><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDlSAyotbms/UXLdknNlD8I/AAAAAAAAGvc/uvsdlCdph64/s1600/Texas-explosion.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDlSAyotbms/UXLdknNlD8I/AAAAAAAAGvc/uvsdlCdph64/s320/Texas-explosion.jpg" /></a><br><p>The death toll is up to 14. It's a small town, so that's a lot. Neighbours are rallying around, which is great. <br><p>What's not so great: That outrageous IdiotAsshole Rick Perry, the erstwhile governor of a once-proud state, an imbecile who can't count to THREE without prompting &mdash; remember when he wanted to <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/22/texas-takes-step-toward-secession-with-rick-perrys-plan-to-hoard-gold/">SECEDE</a> from these fine United States? &mdash; well, now that cheap-ass motherfucker with his rhinestone boots and his mushmouthed drool wants a "quick turnaround" on federal aid money. SAY WHAT, you asshole? Say FUCKING WUT? Are you on your knees yet? Is your begging bowl up? <br><p>Now a governor's duty is to help the citizens of his state as and when needed. We all understand that. But do the rest of us need to help people who CREATE their own problems? Remember how unsympathetic all those pork barrels, I mean, Southern legislators, were when it came time to help the dying BLACK victims of Hurricane Katrina? Why, some of them actually got up on their hind legs and averred it was an Act of God. Though what kind of God drowns helpless sick old people in their beds, you gotta wonder. When people were losing their homes and livelihoods as a result of Sandy, those selfsame assholes averred as how people had "made bad choices," and must put up and shut up, since it was their own goddamned fault in the first place. Nice. Real nice. Assholes. <br><p>But this here dumbass MOTHERfucker, Rick Perry, he <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/texas-cut-fire-department-funding-by-75-percent-this-year/">SLASHED funding for firefighting</a> in his state. TexASS has had droughts nearly every damn year since I can remember, and BAD wildfires, too. Lil Ricky thought he was so damn cool, cutting those budgets, snippy-snippetty. So he could make the REST of us pay for his refusal to spend on his own people? What kind of idiot slashes firefighter funding by 75% in a state prone to droughts and wildfires? <br><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jwC3wbxbrAg/UXLjuHsJwMI/AAAAAAAAGvk/O0P7Y_4CXXc/s1600/Rick-Perry-alt-BP-oil.jpeg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jwC3wbxbrAg/UXLjuHsJwMI/AAAAAAAAGvk/O0P7Y_4CXXc/s320/Rick-Perry-alt-BP-oil.jpeg" /><br>This kind. Idiot.</a><br><p>And that's not all. Here's that humbugging manwhore with his tattooed eyeliner, DroopyDawgII, aka Ted Cruz. <br><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vb6bRIGpKSM/UXLoNj_PmaI/AAAAAAAAGvs/4cO5UGwq0Wg/s1600/AssholeTedCruz.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vb6bRIGpKSM/UXLoNj_PmaI/AAAAAAAAGvs/4cO5UGwq0Wg/s320/AssholeTedCruz.jpg" />Image from http://tonightsforecastdark.blogspot.com</a><br><p>This cheap piece of shit wannabe Texan &mdash; yes, born in Cuba, emigrated to Canada, then decided Americans were stupider and easier to con, maybe &mdash; had the unmitigated GALL to vote against relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Remember that, y'all? Remember when your friends and relatives on the east coast were shivering their asses off in winter, homes destroyed, cars wrecked, kids killed? Occupy was asking people to chip in for sandwiches and blankets for the victims? <br><p>That's when this worthless gusano, this perro, this piece of dog shit you would scrape off your shoe, stood up and voted AGAINST aid for those people THREE FUCKING TIMES. Now this piece of shit wants Federal money &mdash; OUR fucking tax dollars &mdash; <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/19/cruz-called-sandy-aid-pork-but-wants-all-available-resources-after-texas-blast/">"all available resources,"</a> and he wants it pronto. <br><p>If you have a Twitter account, go let him know what you think of this. He's @SenTedCruz. If you *don't* have such an account, consider getting one, especially if you're from NY/NJ/MA. He wants your tax $$? Tell him to film himself kissing Chuck Schumer's ass first. Both cheeks. <br><p>Think we're being too hard on Texas? Read this, from <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/04/19/1893601/update-last-inspection-of-west-texas-fertilizer-plant-was-in-1985/?mobile=nc">Alternet</a>: <br><p> <blockquote> [...] in 2008, the Center for American Progress found a fertilizer plant that stored millions of pounds of anhydrous ammonia in Pasadena, Texas to be among the most hazardous chemical facilities in the country, with more than 3 million people living in range of a worst-case ammonia gas release. </blockquote> Anhydrous ammonia will blow your shit all to hell. You know. Like what just happened to that little town of West.http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2013/04/caturday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-6413967026229352536Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:58:00 +00002012-12-31T21:58:30.889-08:00Can healthy taste good?I think so. &nbsp;And after all these years I stumbled on doing something simple with broccoli that sure tickled my taste buds. &nbsp;And I mean, how simple is this?<br /><br /><b>Ingredients:</b><br /><br />I used 5 heads of broccoli,<br />1 pound of shallots<br />a dozen large mushrooms<br />3-4 tablespoons of olive oil<br />garlic powder<br />black pepper<br /><br />And I made enough to last over several meals with healthy helpings!<br /><br /><b>Directions:</b><br />1. &nbsp;Slice the shallots into thin slices.<br /><br />2. Fry the shallot slices in a frying pan with the olive oil, garlic powder and pepper to taste.<br /><br />3. Chop the broccoli into spear and boil with the mushrooms until you can just stab the broccoli with a fork. &nbsp;The broccoli should not be too hard or mushy, but firm and just right. &nbsp;And the mushrooms should still be firm too.<br /><br />4. &nbsp;Drain the broccoli and mushrooms and thoroughly toss and mix the caramelized shallots in until the broccoli is coated with the olive oil.<br /><br />5. &nbsp;Eat.<br /><br />6. &nbsp;Yum!<br /><br />I called TPC earlier this evening with this simple recipe and wouldn't you know it? &nbsp;She has been doing this same thing for years. &nbsp;And I only just discovered it. &nbsp; Oh well, but I think if I had more time I might have tried slicing or pressing some actual garlic cloves but I was in a hurry and the garlic powder was a quick solution. &nbsp;Give it a try and see if this doesn't add a spark to your healthy broccoli!http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/12/can-healthy-taste-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-2590570030275372060Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:00:00 +00002012-12-24T12:01:07.276-08:00This Holiday Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PS3amqU3P6U/UNiz1LLd9dI/AAAAAAAAGug/anEdBgGiOdc/s1600/Mistletoe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PS3amqU3P6U/UNiz1LLd9dI/AAAAAAAAGug/anEdBgGiOdc/s400/Mistletoe.jpg" /></a></div> Image from <a href="http://vrikshanurseries.blogspot.com/2011/12/legend-of-mistletoethe-plantthe-fable.html">Vriksha Nursery, which also offers a marvellous explanation of mistletoe. And amazing plants. Checkidout.</a><br><p>It's Christmas Eve and La Casa de Los Gatos hasn't felt so un-Christmassy in years. In our somewhat misspent youf, we regularly attended (for us) Midnight Mass at the old church near our school. The lurid stained-glass windows depicting the beating and torture of an unarmed man sort of really gets you into that Christmassy mood, but fortunately, was not quite so overpowering at midnight; and the procession began and ended at the nearby statue of the Blessed Virgin (lemme tellya, there was plenty of questioning about what exactly was this thing called "virgin," especially after the introduction of "virgin" oils and wools, and the like. You can't explain virgin without explaining sex, and the nuns would probably have preferred a red-hot poker up their collective ass to explaining sex to us kids). Said Blessed Virgin was a gentle, rather faded-looking lady with a sort of blue and gold burnous about her and lots of candles burning at her shrine. But in those days, Christmas for us meant a religious festival, and the joy of lighting one's candle at the shrine and proceeding around the church to the chanting of prayers and the singing of hymns had its own special beauty. Some of us who shall remain forever nameless appreciated that in our shrivelled black atheistic little hearts, for the sonorous beauty of the music, the grave measure of feet marching around the old building, the sight of tiny golden tongues of flame licking at the pitch blackness around the gray church walls.<br><p>So it's Christmas Eve, and tomorrow we pop a fat goose in the oven and roast a ton of little potatoes, parsnips, sweet potatoes, yams, rutabagas, and onions in goose fat, and braise some brussels sprouts with a little pancetta, and saute some red cabbage with wine vinegar and tiny currants, and handfuls of herbs and spices and orange and lemon peel, and La Casa de Los Gatos will smell like our idea of heaven, and we will eat a Christmas dinner with our beloveds. <br><p> We hope you are all doing the same. Our love to those of you who will be missing loved ones this year. We've suffered some heavy losses this decade, too, and will be remembering those who are gone. And remember, THIS is the REAL reason for the season: <br><p><iframe width="420" height="275" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KgGPDGA4Jc8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><p>Love each other and hold each other close, dear ones. We don't do it often enough, so use the holidays as an excuse if you must, but reach out to your loved ones with all your heart. http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/12/image-from-vriksha-nursery-which-also.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ThePoliticalCat)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-4956123908304444531Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:52:00 +00002012-12-17T19:52:53.602-08:00Would you rather have ...... a gun to hold in your hands and cradle in your arms? &nbsp;To feel the kick when you fire it? &nbsp;To feel its cold hard steel momentarily warmed by the bullet screaming out of it, while it smokes its breath into your nostrils? &nbsp;To hear the clang of the empty shell on the ground after you fired the round? &nbsp;And then hear the dead thud as the bullet strikes its target, leaving an empty hole and all to often grievous death in its wake? <br /><br />Or perhaps would you rather have your child to hold and care for and love? &nbsp;To see the little one grow and blossom before your eyes, this new life you created? <br /><br />I can imagine how many people are answering that question for themselves right now. &nbsp; And I'm sure more than ever many people out there saying give me my child, because their child means more to them than even their own life. &nbsp;And tonight there are all to many parents with empty arms because others chose guns instead.<br /><br />I hate guns. &nbsp;If I could have my way I would rid the world of them. &nbsp;Unfortunately&nbsp;I can't and so you gun freaks out there can breath easy. &nbsp;Your precious guns are safe from me. &nbsp;Your precious.<br /><br />I have personally seen though, what a bullet can do to human flesh. &nbsp;Years ago I had a friend who was shot along the side of a freeway by someone in a car who supposedly stopped to help after his motorcycle broke down. &nbsp;But instead of helping they shot him once in the gut and that bullet damn near cut him in half as he spun away from the shooter. &nbsp;He somehow survived and spent months in a hospital recovering and showed me the scars afterwards that went clear around him. &nbsp;The scars were ugly as hell. &nbsp;But I'm sure the asshole who shot sure must have felt like a man. &nbsp;Look! &nbsp;See what I can do with a gun! <br /><br />To be sure, I'm sure there are many NRA members out there who are as outraged as me over this slaughter of 20 children in school this past Friday. &nbsp;And I am sure many of them are just as outraged over the NRA opposing any sort of gun control legislation no matter how sensible that legislation is.<br /><br />But for all those people who oppose gun control legislation, they have blood on their hands. &nbsp;They have blood all over them. &nbsp;And yes, I blame them. &nbsp;God damn them I blame them. &nbsp;They may not have held and shot the gun that killed those children but their opposition to any sort of gun control whatsoever for whatever reason including that they might be inconvenienced a little bit makes them an accomplice to this horror.<br /><br />I wonder what they would say to those children and their parents if they could have looked them in their eyes and talked to them on Thursday night. &nbsp;"Sorry kids, you have to die because I don't want to be inconvenienced. &nbsp;Sorry parents, your lives will have to be forever shattered with grief because my guns are more important to me than the lives of your kids."<br /><br />God damn those god damn gun freaks. &nbsp;God damn them. &nbsp;I hate them. &nbsp;I hate all of them. &nbsp;And I hate the NRA. &nbsp;May they rot in hell. <br /><br />I hope this time though, that this nation is waking up and is understanding the first 4 words of the Second Amendment, "A well regulated militia" and I don't think the founders were thinking of regulating pantaloons. <br /><br />To be sure, this tragedy no doubt has roots in a failed healthcare system too that does little to provide for mental health, let alone the health of people in this country as well as other societal ills. &nbsp;But we need gun regulation now. &nbsp;And that regulation should outlaw these god damn assault style weapons with these stinking fucking large bullet clips that make such slaughter not only possible but inevitable.<br /><br />And we can't do this soon enough.<br /><br />From Roger Waters album, Amused to Death, the song,<br /><h1 style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">"The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range"</span></h1><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You have a natural tendency</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">To squeeze off a shot</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You're good fun at parties</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You wear the right masks</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You're old but you still</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Like a laugh in the locker room</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You can't abide change</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You're at home on the range</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You opened your suitcase</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Behind the old workings</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">To show off the magnum</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You deafened the canyon</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">A comfort a friend</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Only upstaged in the end</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">By the Uzi machine gun</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Does the recoil remind you</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Remind you of sex</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Old man what the hell you gonna kill next</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Old timer who you gonna kill next"</span></span><br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/12/would-you-rather-have.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-2961437906740965177Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:49:00 +00002012-12-01T17:49:20.697-08:00And now for something completely different... kind of in honor of Caturday, although no cats were involved in the making of this movie. &nbsp; Sorry TPC. &nbsp;:-)<br /><br />But do I rant on about a lot of things that piss me off and maybe sometimes you wonder if there are things that make me smile. &nbsp;And there are, like for example this youtube video of a South American moon walking bird, the manakin.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eI_quJRRGxk" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />I think Michael Jackson could have learned a thing or two about moon walking from this little flyboy. &nbsp;Pretty amazing performance if you ask me! <br /><br />But as if that weren't enough, how about this bird that can not only perfectly imitate the song of other birds, it can also mimic the sounds of other things it hears, including humans or cameras ...<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tXE6aUGb4zw" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />... or sadly even, chain saws.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sAwiFMKPHmY" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />Nonetheless, isn't nature wonderful and amazing! &nbsp;To be sure, nature isn't always funny and it can be brutal, as life is a jungle for the wildlife out there, avoiding natural predators and all that, as I experienced a few weeks ago after arriving home late one afternoon to see the hawk in the image below dining on a morning dove it had killed in my backyard. &nbsp;It sure left a pile of feathers from where it tore up the dove!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4iu0C9iduPQ/ULqufLt8_aI/AAAAAAAAABo/A2OYMv_BPgQ/s1600/_W5U0225-ltzw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4iu0C9iduPQ/ULqufLt8_aI/AAAAAAAAABo/A2OYMv_BPgQ/s320/_W5U0225-ltzw.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Predation by hawks is natural though and while it is sad for the dove, it was an amazing thing for me to witness this bit of wild nature right in my own backyard.<br /><br />&nbsp;But speaking of predation, that reminds me of cats, those wonderful furry little friends of ours that often grace our homes. &nbsp;But I have to ask, beg, and plead. &nbsp;If you have cats that you let outdoors, put a collar with a bell on them. &nbsp;I attract and feed birds in my backyard and enjoy their presence immensely. &nbsp;They make my yard come alive with their variety, color, song, and beauty.<br /><br />I hate to say it though, but many of those little song birds I have been feeding have fallen prey to neighborhood cats, who are expert at ambushing and killing them, leaving only a few feathers to suggest the bird was ever there. &nbsp;And I have actually caught the cats in the act of murdering birds. &nbsp;When I see them in my yard, I throw water at them, hoping to discourage them, though I'm not sure it is working yet.<br /><br />Nonetheless, there is a <a href="http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/cats/index.html" target="_blank">horrific slaughter of our wild songbirds by cats in this country</a> where cats kill hundreds of millions of birds each year, probably as many as 500 million birds.<br /><br />I love cats, they are marvelous animals and pets, but as pet owners, people need to take steps to protect both their pets and birds and other wildlife cats would prey upon. &nbsp;Keeping your cat indoors is best, but if you must let it out, please, please, please put a collar with a bell on it. &nbsp;Give our wonderful wildlife a chance too!<br /><br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/12/and-now-for-something-completely.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-7247222415755166950Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:58:00 +00002012-12-01T17:49:45.332-08:00What Saint President Hero for life Reagan (for RePIGliCON's anyway) had to say ...... about Social Security. &nbsp;And given how much RePIGliCON's worship Reagan, I wonder if they will even bother to listen to what he had to say about Social Security back in 1984. <br /><br />Norman Goldman has an audio link on his website where Reagan talks about Social Security and its impact on the debt, which he was running up. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.normangoldman.com/uploads/media/3601/Ronald-Reagan---Social-Security-and-The-Deficit.mp3" target="_blank">Listen here, along with an intro by Norman Goldman</a>.<br /><br />Norm says lets make this clip viral and this is my effort to get it out there, because don't you know, the RePIGliCON's out there want to cut and privatize and steal Social Security and the money involved for themselves and their billionaire fat rat pig bastard buddies on Wall Street. &nbsp; And I hate to say it but far to many people in this country are either so god damned stupid or uniformed and ignorant that they'd fall for the RePIGliCON claims and hand it over to the fat rat pig bastards on a silver platter.<br /><br />And by the way, I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing Social Security and Medicare called entitlements that I could scream, and more. &nbsp; We worked for, and paid for and earned those benefits. &nbsp;Call them that! &nbsp;Call them earned benefits!<br /><br />And now back to your regularly scheduled programming ....http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-saint-president-reagan-and-hero.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-8568900941523975209Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:25:00 +00002012-11-27T21:32:10.927-08:00Game, set, match<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, as we approach the cheery war on christmas season where the Fox Boobs lunatics distract their stupid viewers with pointless, useless, dribble, there is an article by Michael Klare on <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175621/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_a_thermonuclear_energy_bomb_in_christmas_wrappings/#more" target="_blank">TomDispatch.com of utmost importance to humanity</a>&nbsp;about climate change and it ain't cheery at all.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />In fact it makes me bloody fucking glad I never had kids as their future would be mighty fucking bleak if they even have a future at all.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Oh my. &nbsp;This is one fine fucked up planet we are handing over to our kids as corporate greed speeds to extract and burn fossil fuels as fast as they fucking can in a race to make America the number 1 provider of fossil fuels in the world without any regard to the health of the planet we all must call home.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />But rather than rant on, let me recommend you make the article required reading, especially if you have kids and care about their future. &nbsp;Here's a taste clipped from it:</span><br /><br /><br />"<strong style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No Hope for Averting Catastrophic Climate Change</span></strong><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of all the findings in the 2012 edition of the&nbsp;<em>World Energy Outlook</em>, the one that merits the greatest international attention is the one that received the least.&nbsp; Even if governments take vigorous steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the report concluded, the continuing increase in fossil fuel consumption will result in “a long-term average global temperature increase of 3.6 degrees C.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This should stop everyone in their tracks.&nbsp; Most scientists believe that an increase of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719" style="color: #9b3921; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2 degrees Celsius</a>&nbsp;is about all the planet can accommodate without unimaginably catastrophic consequences: sea-level increases that will wipe out many coastal cities, persistent droughts that will destroy farmland on which hundreds of millions of people depend for their survival, the collapse of vital ecosystems, and far more.&nbsp; <b>An increase of 3.6 degrees C essentially suggests the end of human civilization as we know it</b>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;">"</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But will people sit up and take notice? &nbsp;Or will they figure 2100 is a long ways off and they'll be dead by then anyway, when the calendar turns over 2100 and the temperature magically flips and ramps up that 3.6 degrees that we won't suffer until then.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sorry folks, it won't work like that and we're already experiencing it. &nbsp;Will humanity do anything about it? &nbsp;I doubt it, but really, it is not smart to mess around with mother nature. &nbsp;Game, set, match. &nbsp;</span></div>http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/game-set-match.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-2756824122438501567Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:14:00 +00002012-11-26T19:23:08.163-08:00Have I told you how much ...... I hate these people? &nbsp;Oh god. &nbsp;Sometimes I don't even know what to say except that I get so mad I could have a stroke.<br /><br />I'm sure you have heard of the horrific fire in that clothing factory in Bangladesh that just like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire" target="_blank">1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York</a>, also killed well over 100 people laboring for what, 21 cents an hour?<br /><br />Oh but then I'm sure those super capitalistic right wing Nazi Christian free marketeer rat pig bastards out there will moan over the loss of the poor factory building that burned down and the poor owners who owned it. &nbsp;What will they do now? &nbsp;Oh my.<br /><br />As for all the people who died, I'm sure those rat pig bastards will figure it all worked out really well for them. &nbsp;They get to go on a permanent vacation now, from life.<br /><br />And meanwhile you have all these <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/25/deficit-reduction-council-fiscal-cliff_n_2185585.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&amp;utm_campaign=112612&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=NewsEntry&amp;utm_term=Daily%20Brief" target="_blank">billionaire corporate CEO's over here demanding cuts</a> on any and all programs that help the poor or the elderly&nbsp;here in the US of A, all while they reap billions in government contracts and tax breaks for themselves. &nbsp;Talk about fat greedy pigs feeding at the trough. &nbsp;Let me tell you&nbsp;I hate these people. &nbsp;I really hate them. &nbsp;There isn't an ounce of humanity in them. &nbsp;Sometimes I think the wrong people burned to death in those horrible fires. &nbsp;I'm sure they will complain that the fires weren't their fault though. &nbsp;It was just one of those things, you know?<br /><br />No, cut labor costs to the bone. &nbsp;Safety regulations? &nbsp;Who needs them when there's money to be made. &nbsp;Lock up those slaves, oops, I mean associates, in the building and don't let them out for anything. &nbsp;Work 'em to the bone. &nbsp;See how happy they are! &nbsp;And if there's a fire and a mess of them die, oh well, they're expendable for the greater good, the corporation. &nbsp;Cost of business you know. &nbsp;And besides, I'm sure some insurance company will send the corporation a big fat check for all those dead associates. <br /><br />Isn't capitalism wonderful! &nbsp;And now what corporation do you want to die for?<br /><br />Jesus fucking H. Christ, how I hate these rat pig bastard people.<br /><br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/have-i-told-you-how-much.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-7596480725988363212Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:41:00 +00002012-11-22T11:50:33.605-08:00A Political prisoner in America - Don SiegelmanToday is Thanksgiving, that great American holiday where we give thanks. &nbsp;It is a nice holiday and certainly gives you pause to think of those people and things in your life to be thankful for. &nbsp;But I cannot be thankful thinking of people rotting in American prisons, thrown in jail to suit the purpose and advantage of political opponents. <br /><br />The prisoner in this case is Don Siegelman, who was the victim of the machinations of Karl Rove and the RePIGliCON party in Alabama. &nbsp;They wanted him out of their way. &nbsp;They trumped up a bullshit case and prosecuted him under an evil right wing pig rat bastard judge. &nbsp; &nbsp;If you aren't familiar with the case,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mimi-kennedy/don-siegelman_b_1851909.html" target="_blank">check out this article on the Huffingtonpost</a>. &nbsp;Even many Republicans are outraged by this injustice.<br /><br />Imagine getting thrown in jail for reappointing a person to a non-paying, state hospital oversight board who had already served several terms on it and who didn't particularly even want to serve again. &nbsp;But that person had donated $500K to support a referendum to create a state lottery that would raise money to send Alabama kids to college for free. &nbsp;There was no quid quo pro. &nbsp;Don Siegelman tried to do something good for the kids in his state and ended up in jail for it.<br /><br />Don's daughter, Dana, has created a petition asking President Obama to pardon and free her dad. &nbsp;Her petition has been out there for awhile, and has been discussed on numerous talk shows and the like. &nbsp;Millions of people have heard about it and yet it looks like only a little more than 39,000 people have signed it. &nbsp; For the life of me, I don't understand why 50 million people haven't signed it. <br /><br />If you have not&nbsp;already&nbsp;done so, <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-please-restore-justice-and-pardon-my-dad" target="_blank">please sign this petition asking President Obama to pardon Don Siegelman</a>. &nbsp; I can't for the life of me, understand why Obama has not pardoned him already. &nbsp;This injustice needs to be overturned and that fucking rat pig bastard Karl Rove thrown in jail instead!!!!http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-political-prisoner-in-america-don.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-2720399186560174863Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:29:00 +00002012-11-19T15:29:13.462-08:00"HOW DID it start? Stupid question."<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As is my habit during the week, I ventured over to <a href="http://radioornot.com/">Nicole Sandler's Radio or Not website</a> today to stream her show and I saw that she <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1353080494">posted an article</a> by the<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">&nbsp;<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/about/1177150070">Israeli Peace Movement Gush Shalom founder&nbsp;</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #4e7041;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/about/1177150070">Uri Avnery</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333;">, which she described as "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">the best thing I’ve read from an Israeli about the horrific practice of bombing one another into oblivion instead of fixing the problems that divide us"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">&nbsp;and I have to agree with Nicole on all counts. &nbsp;Read it and you'll learn more about what is going on there then you likely will otherwise.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">To be sure, I am no expert on the Mid-East but I do have a sense of justice and I have long felt that Israel has treated the Palestinian people like absolutely fucking shit. &nbsp;As former President Jimmy Carter said, the Palestinians are living under apartheid. &nbsp;The Palestinians are fenced in, they can't hardly get basic supplies or medicine, and often live in squalor, even as Israeli settlers expand into the prime land while pushing the Palestinians out of their homes.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">You know, if an Israeli bulldozer was tearing down my house to make room for Israeli settlers to move in, you better fucking know that I would would respond with guns and rockets too.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Ultimately, you reap what you sow. &nbsp;If you treat people like shit, don't expect them to like it. &nbsp;They're going to fight back. &nbsp;The fighting over there doesn't have to be. &nbsp;I know hatred exists on both sides but if Israel ever wants to really have peace, they better put away the guns and try a little milk and honey instead. &nbsp;Listen to the Israeli Peace Movement. &nbsp;Break the chain of reaction and retaliation. &nbsp;End the violence and fix the problems. Otherwise, like <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1353080494">Uri Avnery write</a>s, the bloodletting will go on forever.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-did-it-start-stupid-question.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-7851305076553598222Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:01:00 +00002012-11-16T18:20:23.522-08:00Anonymous apparently foiled Karl Rove's attempt to flip Ohio!OMG. &nbsp;From a report I just heard, the secretive group Anonymous intercepted and blocked an attempt by Karl Rove and his minions to flip the vote in Ohio and give the election to Romney. &nbsp;No wonder Rove had his meltdown on Fox Boobs!<br /><br />I just heard this and haven't had a chance to explore it but <a href="http://wonkette.com/489966/anonymous-claims-it-stopped-karl-rove-from-hacking-the-election-by-hacking-orca-we-think">check out this link</a> and search for more. &nbsp;I bet, I'll betcha it's true and we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to this secretive group! &nbsp; And there ought to be evidence out of this to throw Rove's sorry ass in the slammer for the rest of his life. &nbsp;And if justice could be added to justice, his sorry ass will end up as the "girlfriend" of the biggest, nastiest ringleader in the jail! &nbsp;Bend over Rove, here it comes again! &nbsp;Can't you just see it! &nbsp;:-)<br /><br />Though to be honest, I can't imagine how that creepy slug face of Rove's would be attractive to anyone, though sometimes there's no accounting for taste.<br /><br />The only question now though, is if Rove's slippery ass will slither out of this revelation without being prosecuted. &nbsp;But then, I imagine he's still trying to escape the wrath of his overlords for failing them. &nbsp;Maybe there'll be another kind of justice still. &nbsp;We'll see.http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/anonymous-apparently-foiled-karl-roves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-3239044829798498278Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:50:00 +00002012-11-13T16:50:36.910-08:00Soap Opera time, Jesus Fucking H. Christ!So now we have this crazy soap opera going on with David Patraeus, so crazy that you can't hardly make this stuff up! &nbsp;It's like everybody involved is married, cheating on, and bonking everyone else. &nbsp;Talk about the sanctity of marriage, OMG! &nbsp;Has someone told all these straight people about that? &nbsp;Jesus!<br /><br />And meanwhile it practically took an act of god and Obama to let gay and lesbians even serve in the military, all while this stuff is going on. &nbsp;And there are still way, way to many states where gay and lesbian folk cannot marry the person they love because, well, you know, we have to defend marriage. &nbsp;Oh really! &nbsp;From what? &nbsp;Jesus Fucking H. Christ! &nbsp;Well, at least that is changing though, albeit too slowly.<br /><br />But this soap opera is so crazy I will leave it to Hollywood to make a movie about it. &nbsp;Although, usually a good movie has to have a believable plot. &nbsp;This is just so nutty that this story will have a hard time making the cut for even a bad made-for-TV movie! &nbsp;It's just too weird, even for this site, and we love our potty mouth! <br /><br />Nonetheless, Jesus Fucking H. Christ already David, and everyone else involved too! &nbsp;Put your Johnson away and zip up that fucking zipper and keep it up!http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/soap-opera-time-jesus-fucking-h-christ.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-8566264600253477Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:36:00 +00002012-11-12T19:18:18.904-08:00Our super scary fiscal cliff (or curb in our case)Scared about our 16 trillion dollar national debt? &nbsp;We're told to be. &nbsp;To be sure, it is an ugly number and it is a ginormous scary huge pile of money, no doubt about that.<br /><br />And of course, the scum sucking right wing rat pig bastards blame it all on Obama, that liberal socialist super tax and spend monster. &nbsp;Never mind that a super ginormous huge pile of that debt was run up by Sonny Boy President George Hero for life W. Bush, who by the way never bothered to put his wars for corporate profit on the books, let alone his giant give away to the pharmaceutical companies with that Medicare drug bill that made it illegal for the federal government to negotiate for better drug prices. <br /><br />Nope, if you're honest about it, you have to recognize that RePIGliCON's are the real spend monsters here. &nbsp;They run up huge debts and deficits and then scream like hell about it when the Democrats are in charge. &nbsp;Talk about stinking lying asshole rat pig bastards, RePIGliCONs are it!<br /><br />And so we are left with this ugly national debt that scares everybody to death. &nbsp;And so obviously our only way out is to cut our spending on Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and food stamps and education and anything and everything that actually helps real people in this country. &nbsp;Super austerity! &nbsp;It's the only way to go right?<br /><br />Well, hold on then now, not so fast. &nbsp;As bad as our national debt is and relative to our gross domestic product (GDP), it is by no means the worst we have ever had as a nation. &nbsp;Don't believe me? &nbsp;Then do a little homework here and <a href="http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/longterm/debt/">check out this chart</a> put up, NOT by any liberal pinko commie leftwing blog like this. &nbsp;No, this chart is the product of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).<br /><br />From the GAO chart, our debt to GDP exceeded 110% during World War II. &nbsp;It cost us a hell of a lot of money to fight those wars. &nbsp;But then in those days, we were all in to do it and we did it. &nbsp;AND we paid off that debt. &nbsp;Though admittedly and unlike now, that was back in the day when the rich and the corporations actually paid their fair share.<br /><br />But on the other hand, our debt to GDP ratio is only about half as much as it was during World War II and we have to panic! &nbsp;OMG!<br /><br />Nonetheless, if you look at the history of our national debt to GDP, that ratio stayed low through President Carter, until Reagan promptly ran it back up, but then Clinton paid a chunk of that down. &nbsp;Then it starts to rise again a little bit under Bush, but again, Bush never put any of his huge expenditures on the books, leaving it to Obama to put that debt on the books as it should have been. &nbsp;And so you see this spike under Obama, as though he were spending all this money. &nbsp;He's not! &nbsp;The other side of the coin is revenue, which RePIGliCONs won't allow. &nbsp;They are dead set on bankrupting the country and they don't give a fuck who get hurts in the process.<br /><br />See! &nbsp;RePIGliCONs are exactly that, stinking lying asshole rat pig bastards. &nbsp;They caused all this debt, lied about that, and then lied about the scope of it relative to our economy! &nbsp;And then won't allow any revenue to pay it down. &nbsp;Oh I hate these fuck head people. &nbsp;And so now we have this so called fiscal cliff were about it head over, right? &nbsp;Oh Really!?<br /><br />I have to recommend <a href="http://radioornot.com/">Nicole Sandler's show</a> today as she played a clip from Chris Hayes who calls it what it is, a "fiscal curb." &nbsp;And she had a good segment with Rick Ungar from Forbes about it all. &nbsp; Give a listen and learn.<br /><br />Oh, and then Nicole rightly focuses on the closing of one progressive radio station after another across this country. &nbsp;Taking a drive across the country in the future? &nbsp;If you turn on your car radio, all you are going to get to hear is stinking right wing propaganda from Glen Beck and Rush Limbutt and on and on. <br /><br />And here I am in the liberal blue progressive Bay Area and the only AM station that plays any progressive talk, AM 960, took off half their progressive programming at the beginning of this year and gave it to Beck and other assholes I could give a fuck about. &nbsp;These right wing bastards only want right wing propaganda on our airwaves, the people's airwaves. &nbsp;Assholes. &nbsp;That's why more and more I turn the radio off and listen to programs like Nicole's and <a href="http://www.mikemalloy.com/">Mike Malloy's</a> on the internet instead. &nbsp;Let radio die. &nbsp;Just give me my Nicole<br /><br /><br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/our-super-scary-fiscal-cliff-or-curb-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-3098513488926807405Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:20:00 +00002012-11-11T13:19:12.389-08:00More Corporate Socialism running amuck<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/04/12/taxed-by-the-boss/">This story</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;David Cay Johnston&nbsp;has been out there since April 12, 2012 but with everything thrown at us every day it is easy to forget about. &nbsp;I had forgotten about it myself until I heard it again the other day.<br /><br />Based on studies by Good Jobs First, a nonprofit taxpayer watchdog group, at least 16 states allow the boss to keep the state income taxes deducted from your paycheck. &nbsp;This goes along with the bullshit &nbsp;of stores like Walmart keeping the sales tax you have to pay when you shop there. &nbsp;You think you are paying taxes to support the government services you need and deserve, but no, the money goes to the bottom line of the companies getting these "subsidies," socialism really, for the so-called capitalist free &nbsp;market so many assholes are totally in love with.<br /><br />And then you wonder why your property taxes are so high, or why you are being taxed here, there, and everywhere, or why school funding is being cut, or your roads and bridges are falling apart, or why police and fire departments have to layoff officers and firefighters, all while pensions for government workers are blamed for all the deficits.<br /><br />But you will rarely hear about this diversion of money. &nbsp;How many states and communities out there are doing this sort of fucking bullshit while keeping it secret? &nbsp;Who knows?<br /><br />As far as I am concerned, this is criminal. &nbsp;It's taxpayer theft. &nbsp;It's job blackmail. &nbsp;It's evil. &nbsp;And it has to end. &nbsp;If I had my way, I would throw the CEO's of the companies that demand this blackmail AND the politicians who give in to it all in jail and I'd throw away the key!<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4sZzQQLX-AI" width="560"></iframe>http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-corporate-socialism-running-amuck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-5571199895487597161Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:05:00 +00002012-11-07T08:05:46.785-08:00Election results still flowing in this morning ...... And I have to take off for the day shortly. &nbsp;I called TPC last night after Obama won and we celebrated on the phone together. &nbsp;It will probably still be awhile but TPC hopes to blog again in the future. &nbsp;I sure hope so. &nbsp;I'm a poor replacement compared to her writing!<br /><br />But from the little bit I have heard, we had some great victories yesterday, Alan Grayson, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, and more. <br /><br />And I heard this morning on <a href="http://radioornot.com/">Nicole Sandler's Radio or Not</a> show that Alan Grayson had the biggest political come back in history going from loosing by 18 points to winning by 25 or 26 points!<br /><br />I also gather from Nicole that America's Senator, Bernie Sanders, won by a huge margin in Vermont, winning without spending a lot and by being true to his beliefs. &nbsp;I love Bernie Sanders and wish there were more like him!<br /><br />Well, that is it for me today. &nbsp;I'm already late and need to get out of here. &nbsp;But even though we lost some tough races, we won a lot too and those victories make me smile!http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/election-results-still-flowing-in-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-888537753313911015Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:25:00 +00002012-11-06T20:25:55.993-08:00YAY!!!!The time is 8:19 PM PST and I have just heard that President Obama is projected to win having already received 274 Electoral Votes. &nbsp; YAY!<br /><br />So far it looks like Romney is ahead in the popular vote, HOWEVER, California still has to be tallied up and I won't be surprised to see Obama win the popular vote too. &nbsp;I sure hope so. <br /><br />And now I know things still will not be cherry peachy king in Obama's second administration and we will have to push him from the left, but at least we have a chance with President Obama. &nbsp;There was no chance of that with Romney.<br /><br />But for now, celebrate!!!! &nbsp;Raise a glass! &nbsp;Congratulations President Obama!!!<br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/yay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-4747033157435917298Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:54:00 +00002012-11-06T16:08:06.246-08:00RePIGliCONS - dirty rotten to the core racists pigs!I have long thought that many people (I won't say all) in the RePIGliCON party are stinking fucking racist pig bastards and though I did not hear or see this report until today, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, yes, Colin Powell's aid and Chief of Staff, confirmed it last week.<br /><br />Did you see it? &nbsp;OK, I don't have cable TV and so I miss a lot but Colonel Wilkerson was on the Ed Show on October 26 and confirmed it, as reported on the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/26/1150967/--VIDEO-Col-Lawrence-Wilkerson-On-Republican-Party-My-Party-Is-Full-Of-Racists">Daily Kos</a>:<br /><br />"<span style="color: #242424; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Colonel Wilkerson said:</span><br /><div style="color: #242424; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">My party is full of racists and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants president Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander in chief and President and everything to do with the color of his skin and that is despicable."</div><br />Oh man, I wish people like Colonel Wilkerson would/could take back the RePIGliCON party and turn it into something decent. &nbsp;I know, with all the filthy stinking assholes populating it these days, that's really asking and wishing for a lot.<br /><br />And meanwhile I watch this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/obama-tearful-finishes-iowa_n_2080862.html">video of an emotional Obama</a> yesterday in Iowa and despite whatever complaints and disappointments I had over him in his first term, Obama still seems like a genuinely warm human being. &nbsp;Unlike Romney, who I am sorry but he gives me the creeps! &nbsp;Even Romney's laugh feels like finger nails on a chalk board. &nbsp;Yikes!<br /><br />But you know, when I look back over the past 4 years and remember the bullshit, the crap, and all the hatred thrown at President Obama by the Jebus loving, racist pig bastard hypoChristians, it makes me want to cry. &nbsp;And I wish I could give Obama a big hug myself.<br /><br />Meanwhile, if you haven't seen this <a href="http://youtu.be/GB-eTZSS1Os">video of the Sensata employees</a> who are loosing their jobs thanks to Romney's greedy pig bastard company, check it out.<br /><br />And it's going on 4PM PST as I sit here, and soon we'll know how well the stinking fucking racist pig bastards did in the election today, with everything they've done to both suppress and flip the vote for Romney. &nbsp;I hope Obama stomps them back into their stinking shit pig slop where they belong!!!<br /><br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/repiglicons-dirty-rotten-to-core.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-3390425284177154406Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:39:00 +00002012-11-06T11:39:54.892-08:00You have to see this ...So I just went to <a href="http://radioornot.com/">Nicole Sandler's Radio Or Not</a> website to stream her show and she has a video up showing one of these <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12q6wu/2012_voting_machine_altering_votes/">god damn electronic voting machines in Pennsylvania that registers your vote for Romney when you try to vote for Obama</a>. &nbsp;You know, if it were me trying to vote on the thing and it did that, I'd take a sledge hammer to it. <br /><br />But then, I guess I shouldn't be surprised about this given <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149313/-Beyond-Tag-Romney-Bundlers-Own-the-voting-Machine">Mitt's kid Tag is in the voting machine business</a>. &nbsp;Now I don't know if Tag's voting machines are being used in Pennsylvania but regardless, when our vote is privatized, we get the government that our corporate masters allow us to have.<br /><br />And today <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/6/in_ohio_african_american_turnout_threatened">Greg Palast is breaking a story on Democracy Now</a> about suppression of the black vote in Ohio.<br /><br />These bastards are doing everything they can to steal the election for Romney. &nbsp;Right now I can only hope enough Obama voters are able to get out and vote and get their votes properly counted.<br /><br />As for me, I voted for Obama on paper with an absentee ballot. &nbsp;I should have taken one more step though and hand delivered it while waiting to have them check my signature on file to make sure it matched. &nbsp; Live and learn.http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/you-have-to-see-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-2075967479368837990Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:08:00 +00002012-11-05T14:08:48.964-08:00Oh fuck, oh fuck, mother fucking god damn it to hellSo I'm sitting here listening to <a href="http://radioornot.com/">Nicole Sandler</a>'s&nbsp;November 5th show right now and she has Greg Palast on. &nbsp;I have not finished listening yet but oh fuck.<br /><br />You see, in an honest election, Obama wins hands down. &nbsp;If all the people who want to even bother to vote are allowed to vote and their votes are honestly counted, Obama wins. &nbsp;A good source on that is the <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/">538 Blog</a> out of the NY Times.<br /><br />Listening to Greg though, the RePIGliCONs are doing everything they can right now to suppress the vote and steal the vote and make sure that Romney wins. &nbsp;And they are making it virtually impossible for people to vote, especially if you happen to be black while voting.<br /><br />Look, as much as I would not like it, I would accept a Romney victory if the American people legitimately elected him with the most honest to god votes. &nbsp;I would be depressed but I would accept it.<br /><br />But given the shenanigans these RePIGliCON bastards are pulling off, if Romney is declared the winner, he is going to win with an air of illegitimacy. &nbsp;He won't care, as he will use whatever means it takes to achieve the profitable ends for himself and he doesn't care who he hurts to do it (psychopath!). &nbsp; And here I was always taught and have always believed that the ends do not justify the means.<br /><br />But if there is a bright spot here, the UAW has filed an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/mitt-romney-ethics-complaint-uaw-auto-bailout_n_2056941.html?utm_hp_ref=business">ethics complaint against Romney</a> for his actions in profiting to the tune of up to 115 million dollars in the General Motors bailout. &nbsp;I still have not seen this in the corporate press, who are avoiding this story like the plague. &nbsp;But at least it is getting out there. &nbsp;Maybe enough people in Ohio will know about it and be angry enough about it to get out and vote and win that state for Obama.<br /><br />Otherwise people, prepare to be harvested. &nbsp;That is what Romney does in his love for money. &nbsp;As for Romney loving and caring for people? &nbsp;Not so much. &nbsp;Romney loves corporations and billionaires, the only real people in his eyes, while the rest of us 99% real actually people are only things that can be tossed aside and thrown out. &nbsp;Psychopath.<br /><br />I hope tomorrow's vote will not make the world safe for psychopaths to achieve their ends or we're all in trouble. <br /><br />PLEASE VOTE PEOPLE. &nbsp; VOTE AND VOTE IN HUGE NUMBERS! &nbsp;Make this election impossible to steal!<br /><br /><br />http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/oh-fuck-oh-fuck-mother-fucking-god-damn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-5758355396618107497Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:22:00 +00002012-11-05T11:22:27.144-08:00Bat shit fucking crazyStill haven't gone to <a href="http://radioornot.com/">Nicole Sandler's Radio or Not</a> website yet? &nbsp;Have you voted yet? &nbsp;No? &nbsp;Maybe this will get you out and to your polling place to vote for President Obama. <br /><br />Nicole has a video up this morning where a reporter interviews Romney supporters in Ohio. &nbsp;The people are bat shit fucking crazy. &nbsp;They are the stupidest god damn fucking idiots I think I have ever seen. &nbsp;No maybe not. &nbsp;I'm sure there are stupider people out there, but these people are a close second. <br /><br />And even if some of these people aren't racists, many of them are. &nbsp;They so clearly want the black man out of their white house that they'd chop off their noses to spite their faces just to get Obama out. <br /><br />And they spout the stupidest shit to justify it. &nbsp;These people are god damned bat shit fucking crazy.<br /><br />If you see this and you are a registered voter thinking of skipping the election, don't. &nbsp;Get your butt out and vote.<br /><br />Otherwise on Wednesday we could easily see Romney installed as Prez and then it will be too late and you WILL be sorry. &nbsp;As will I. &nbsp;Vote people, vote!!!!http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/11/bat-shit-fucking-crazy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21074985.post-7327109367550351449Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:08:00 +00002012-10-18T22:15:52.558-07:00Mitt Romney and Extortion of the US GovernmentJesus fucking H. Christ. &nbsp;God fucking damn it to hell. &nbsp;All this time I thought Mitt Romney was a mother fucking evil son of bitch and he is but even I had no idea until today. &nbsp;You won't see it in the corporate fucking press. &nbsp;They're not going to fucking tell you. &nbsp;They want to keep you ignorant, stupid, and obediently compliant. &nbsp; Mitt Romney is after all, the new hero for life riding in on a white horse with a white hat in his cracker white skin to kick the black guy out of the White House.<br /><br />But there are people who are reporting it. &nbsp;As is my habit, I was streaming the Nicole Sandler show today and she had on Greg Palast talking about a breaking story he has been working on, about how <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/18/greg_palast_mitt_romneys_bailout_bonanza">Mitt Romney and his billionaire buddies held the bailout of General Motors hostage for $12 billion fucking dollars</a>. &nbsp;This is too maddening to recount myself. &nbsp;Do yourself a favor. &nbsp;Click the link which will take you to the story reported by Greg Palast this morning on <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/">Democracy Now</a>. &nbsp;And by the way, it is also the cover of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/issue/november-5-2012">the Nation magazine</a> this week. <br /><br />What a stinking, lying piece of fucking shit this creepy creep is. &nbsp;And to think he could become our next President. &nbsp;The Robber Barron's of the 1800's had nothing on this guy. &nbsp; Even Bush is starting to look like a saint to me in comparison. &nbsp;This is not defensible people. &nbsp;This is evil.http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2012/10/mitt-romney-and-extortion-of-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Friend of TPC)4